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The Bodily Nature of Consciousness : Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind /

In this work, Kathleen V. Wider discusses Jean-Paul Sartre's analysis of consciousness in Being and Nothingness in light of recent work by analytic philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists. She brings together phenomenological and scientific understandings of the nature of consciousness...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wider, Kathleen Virginia, 1944-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. The Tradition. Descartes. Locke. Kant
  • Ch. 2. The Force of the Claim. The Pursuit of Being. The Origin of Negation. Bad Faith. Immediate Structures of the For-Itself. Temporality. Transcendence. The Existence of Others. Being and Doing: Freedom. Doing and Having
  • Ch. 3. An Internal Critique. Being-for-Others. Reflection. Pre-Reflective Consciousness
  • Ch. 4. An External Critique. Dreaming. The Long-Distance Truck Driver and People with Blindsight. Nonconscious Perceptual Processing
  • Ch. 5. Remembering the Body. Sartre on Bodily Self-Consciousness. Bodily Intentionality. Bodily Intentionality and Self-Consciousness. Input from Self and World
  • Ch. 6. Biology and Phenomenology. The Law of Identity.